Third Time Lucky for Roche’s Polivy in Europe?

It’s decision time again at the European Medicines Agency and Roche’s Polivy is one of the new drug applications that is up for a potential marketing recommendation.

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 Editor's note: This article was updated on 15 November 2019 to reflect that the MAA for Polivy did not in fact reach the stage at the July meeting of the CHMP of being up for an opinion on whether it should be recommended for marketing in the EU. 

The European Medicines Agency’s drug evaluation committee, the CHMP, will this week consider again whether polatuzumab vedotin, Roche/Genentech’s new orphan...

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